[1][2] She was born in St. John's Parish Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden on September 12, 1912.
While she was at her post in Tanzania, she facilitated construction of a girls' school in Kashasha, Bukoba in 1949, and was elected to join the country's parliament in 1959 as Mwanza's constituency representative and member of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party, which later merged with the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party.
[1][3] She was also the headmaster of a girls' school, adviser to Tanzania's ambassador in Sweden, board member of Dar es-Salaam University and constantly active in improving adult education.
She also appeared for the liberation movement in the rest of southern Africa, such as the African National Congress.
She received an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University in 1968 and was awarded the Illis quorum in 1990.